With the House in a pro forma session and the Senate
discussing S 2012 there were 13 bills introduced yesterday. Once of those may
be of specific interest to readers of this blog:
HR 4397
To direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to
provide for caches of emergency response equipment to be used in the event of
an accident involving rail tank cars transporting hazardous material, crude
oil, or flammable liquids. Rep.
Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
The text of
this bill is already available from the GPO. This is the first time that I
have seen fire-fighting equipment specifically mentioned in oil spill response
legislation. While no funding level is specifically spelled out, the bill does
authorize appropriations for funding of the prepositioning of fire-fighting
equipment. More on this bill later.
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Firefighting equipment is definitely necessary regardless of the organization. It should always be made easily available as a preventive measure before an unwanted situation occurs. Looking forward for an update by Chemical Facility News to inform us about the advances of the bill regarding this issue.
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